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Q: Three weeks ago I had an intuitive flash while meditating. I was in the
attic of a very large and luxurious house. I had been cleaning this house
from top to bottom until it was immaculately clean. It sparkled! It was
perfect. Then when I reached the attic I found a door. When I opened the
door I discovered that there was an entire wing of the house that I had not
know about. It was in horrible disarray. Everything was covered with an inch
of dust. Wood rot, water damage, mildew, broken windows... It was bad! I
just wanted to close the door and forget what I had just seen.

The house is me and the attic in my third eye. At that moment I realized
that the right side of my body is very energetically strong but my left side
isthin,
weak and blocked. I was floored!!! The magnitude of this was like looking in
the mirror for the first time and realizing that I have been walking around
for the past 30 years with an elephant strapped to my back! How could I have
missed this? For the next few days I felt as if I was two different people
joined together at the center of my body.

With effort I have been able to direct energy to the left side of my body,
at first with great physical pain on the left side of my third eye. I can
tell that this balance from right to left is going to take some time.

What does this indicate?

A: The obstructions in the nervous system can take nearly any form and
sometimes can be skewed to the left or right side of the body. It is
difficult to know how it got that way, but yoga practices can gradually
dissolve it all at its source, and bring us back into balance. The fact that
you are seeing these things more clearly now is an indicator of purification
going on from your practices, particularly in the third eye. The thing to do
is continue with your practices as you have been doing them and let the
process carry forward naturally.

Generally speaking, it is not a good idea to try and direct the purification
process in a specific direction outside the third eye to root spinal nerve,
or the well-rounded (global) effects of deep meditation and samyama. We just
can't know intellectually what the natural order of purification will be,
whereas, inner silence and our ecstatic energies will find the purification
channels of least resistance. How the purification happens will depend on so
many karmic factors unique to each person. It can all be taken care of in a
balanced way by eliciting the natural processes of purification from within
with our advanced yoga practices.

If we think we have an imbalance on the left side and focus attention on
fixing that, we could cause more imbalances. Better to use meditation,
spinal breathing, mudras and bandhas, yoni mudra, spinal bastrika, chin
pump, and so on. All these work up and down the central nerve and will not
lead to left or right side imbalances, which can be destabilizing. If you
have a left or right side imbalance, the best way to resolve it is to do
practices in the middle. That is the focus in the lessons. If you go the
middle way with spinal breathing, meditation, and the other practices, you
will find increasing balance from top to bottom and from left to right. The
spinal nerve (sushumna) between the third eye and root is the master key.
All is balanced by purifying that.

The practices that have brought you to this level of seeing are the same
ones that can safely clear out the obstructions that are becoming more
visible.

Remember the guideline on visions - if we see something, we do not try and
push it out or become overly attached to it by engaging in it excessively.
We just easily go back to the practice we are doing and continue the
purification process.

By staying with a twice-daily routine of advanced yoga practices, balanced
with an active life in line with our interests, we will be moving steadily
toward enlightenment.